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13.5 Configuring the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
13.5.1 Local Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
13.5.2 Network Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
13.5.3 Configuration Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
13.6 Special Features in SUSE LINUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
13.6.1 Administration with the Web Front-End (CUPS) . . . 305
13.6.2 Changes in the CUPS Print Service (cupsd) . . . . . . 306
13.6.3 PPD Files in SUSE Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
13.7 Printer Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
13.7.1 Printers without Standard Printer Language Support 310
13.7.2 No Suitable PPD File Available for a PostScript Printer310
13.7.3 Parallel Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
13.7.4 Troubleshooting Network Printers . . . . . . . . . . . 311
13.7.5 Defective Printouts without Error Message . . . . . . 314
13.7.6 Disabled Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
13.7.7 CUPS Browsing: Deleting Print Jobs . . . . . . . . . . 315
13.7.8 Defective Print Jobs and Data Transfer Errors . . . . . 315
13.7.9 Troubleshooting the CUPS Print System . . . . . . . . 316
14 The Hotplug System 317
14.1 Devices and Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
14.2 Hotplug Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
14.3 Hotplug Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
14.4 Automatic Module Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
14.5 Network Devices and Interface Designations . . . . . . . . . 321
14.6 Hotplug with PCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
14.7 Coldplug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
14.8 Error Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
14.8.1 Log Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
14.8.2 Boot Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
14.8.3 The Event Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
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